UMID might never have become a household name, but the company produced some of the more interesting mini-clamshell computers over the past few years, including the mBook line of devices. These little handheld devices looked like laptops, but with 5 inch displays and tiny keyboards, they were really probably better designed for handheld or tabletop use than, well… using while…

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Netbooks and ultra mobile PCs get panned sometimes because they’re not as powerful as larger computers which are often the same price or even cheaper. But you know what? Even a tiny device with a slow processor like the handheld UMID M1 are reasonably fast compared with an average computer from 10 or 15 years ago. And that means they…

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The UMID mbook BZ is a mobile internet device with a QWERTY keyboard and a 4.8 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. I have a habit of calling 10 inch netbooks “mini-laptops,” but this thing is best described as an itty bitty laptop. Now UMID has released a special edition of this little guy, with twice the RAM and a…

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The UMID mBook BZ is smaller than a typical netbook, yet it features netbook-like parts including a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 processor, a solid state disk, Windows 7, and a 1024 x 600 pixel display. But unlike a typical netbook, the mBook BZ’s display is just 4.8 inches. The entire mini-notebooks measures just 6.3″ x 3.8″ x 0.75″, and the…

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Netbooks are small laptops. But the Sharp NetWalker PC-Z1 is small even by netbook standards. It’s probably safer to call this little computer with a 5 inch display a MID or Mobile Internet Device, but unlike many MIDs, it has a full QWERTY keyboard. You’re just going to need very tiny fingers to type properly on it. The NetWalker actually…

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While the UMID MID is technically a MID or Mobile Internet Device and not a netbook, it’s clamshell design sort of makes me not care. This tiny little guy has a 4.8 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen, an Intel Atom CPU running at 1.1GHz or 1.33GHz, 8GB to 32GB of solid state storage, and 512MB to 1GB of RAM….

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